Albert forwarded me a list from CNN of interesting college entrance essay questions, because I asked if someone had ideas for something to blog about. I didn’t get too into it, but I’m just trying to get back into blogging regularly, so it’ll do. Hope it’s worth your five minutes. I linked to Albert’s above. I chose this one to write about:
4. In the year 2050, a movie is being made of your life. Please tell us the name of your movie and briefly summarize the story line. (NYU, 2009)
College admissions officers like to throw in “fun” questions like this to relieve a bit of the stress high school seniors face while applying to college. I don’t think it’s working.
Movies based on true stories are usually very loosely based on true stories. Read a Wikipedia article about pretty much any sports movie made in the last decade that was inspired by a true story. Ignorance is bliss and knowing what actually happened usually takes away from these movies. Not so great—but if you flip it around it’s awesome: mundane things that happened in my life become chill scenes: out in the first round of the regional spelling bee becomes third place in the nationals; 12th man on a PBL team becomes at least Division 1-AA; six months in San Jose as a technical writer becomes eight months in Santa Barbara as a sponsored boogie boarder. Jeremy Efron-Hudgens has a number of scenes in classrooms and at corporate desks looking clueless while Jessica Alba’s daughter gets to struggle through lines like “I have a boyfriend.” Then I get a cameo at the end like the end of Pursuit of Happyness and even I don’t show up to the premiere of this awful movie.